In the end, it was not the flooding or the mudslides or the leacherous men or the suicidal drivers that put me incommunicado - it was a simple, recurring message on my screen, "Travelblog.org is down". Not only was it down for days, it was busy deleting our previous blog entries. Finally, 2 weeks later, I have managed to restore most of these, but some are just partial. Meanwhile so much has happened that I'm not sure how to catch you up with it all - but I want to! I also want to have a full record of where we've been already. So two things: 1) Are you still reading the blog? Do you want to read more? If so, comment here and let me know. If friends and family still want to read this,
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